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IMAGINING MINA
In 1962 a new talent arrived on the U.S. boxing scene. Mauro Mina had become one of the best light heavyweights in the world by fighting exclusively in South America. Now, just one more obstacle stood between him and international boxing stardom.
It had already been a long road for Mina who began life in a rural African-Peruvian community, was a child worker in the town of Chincha and struggled as a young man in Lima before becoming a professional boxer. As his career and fame progressed, he became the toast of the city, the hope of Peru and a national symbol in a fragmented society.
On the verge of becoming the first Latino light heavyweight champion -a category then dominated by U.S boxers- some of the same forces that had propelled him to the top would conspire against him.
Imaging Mina is a story-driven documentary. Dozens of people were interviewed and hundreds of archival sources consulted in order to learn about the era in which Mauro Mina lived, the obstacles he encountered, including racism, and the inner workings of the 1960s boxing business. The film includes segments on legendary U.S. pugilists including Eddie Cotton and Bob Foster --the “Yanquis”, as they were known-- who traveled abroad to seek better opportunies and who are just one of the many parts of this fascinating but forgotten chapter of South American and boxing history.
Is the film going to be out on DVD?
